Delaware River Report / Conditions August 30, 2017

The rain missed us so besides a few drops we had decent cloud cover all day.  The combination of cool nights and daytime cloud cover has really helped the water temperatues too.  The Mainstem at Lordville is starting off at a nice 57 degrees this morning.  Today will be clear but we will keep the cooler temperatures.  Tomorrow is our best shot of any precipitation but if it happns it will be light.  We’re still fishing a lot of small olives mixed with sulphurs, cahill / stenos, golden drakes, yellow drakes, and isonychias.  We’re also seeing a few more caddis flying around in the afternoons.  If you are looking for Tricos don’t get off the river too early.  On colder mornings the spinners take longer before they fall.  We’ve seen them as last as lunchtime.

 

Hatching:
Slate Drake #12-2xl – 12 – Isonychia bicolor
Sulphur – #16 – 20 – Ephemerella dorothea
Golden Drake – 12-2xl – Potomanthus distinctus
Light Cahill – #14 – Summer Sulphurs, Stenocron spp.
Little BWO – #22 – 26- Pseudocloeon sp.
Blue Wing Olives – #18 – Baetis sp.
Tricos – #22 – 26 – Tricorythodes
White Flies – #12-2xl – Ephoron lukon
Little Tan Sedge – #16 – 18 – Glossosoma sp.
Green Caddis – #16 – Ryacophilia sp.
Tan Caddis #16 – 18 – Hydropsyche spp.

Click on the gauge below for the most recent update:

West Branch at Stilesville, NY 534 cfs
47°
West Branch at Hale Eddy, NY 590 cfs
49°
East Branch at Harvard, NY 194 cfs 50°
East Branch at Fish’s Eddy, NY 413 cfs
56°
Mainstem at Lordville, NY 1,140 cfs
57°
Beaverkill at Cooks Falls, NY 156 cfs 57°
Cannonsville Reservoir Release 500 cfs
West Branch at 191 Bridge  N/A 52°
West Branch at Walton (Cannonsville inflow) 158 cfs
Cannonsville Reservoir Capacity 82.4%
Pepacton Reservoir Capacity 88%

 

 

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